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Top 10 Best "1960" Books
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When Everything ChangedGail CollinsBooks |
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The Real Making of the PresidentW. J. Rorabaugh1960 |
The Real Making of the President When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victory--whether as an underdog's heroic triumph or a liberal crusader's overcoming special interests. Now W. J. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of this famous election to explain the nuts-and-bolts operations of the campaign and offer a corrective to Theodore White's flawed classic, The Making of the President. |
#9
Kiss It Good-ByeJohn MoodyBooks |
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Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s Ivan Vartanian
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Rome 1960David MaranissBooks |
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1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. NixonDavid PietruszaBooks |
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What A Year It Was! 1960Beverly CohnBooks |
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A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 Milton Friedman
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1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. NixonDavid PietruszaBooks |
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The SixtiesTodd GitlinBooks |
Psychedelic This eye-popping book offers a visual history of the psychedelic sensibility. In pop culture, that sensibility is associated with lava lamps, album covers, and "teashades," but it first manifested itself in the extreme colors and kaleidoscopic compositions of 1960s Op Artists. The psychedelic sensibility didn't die at the end of the 1960s; Psychedelic traces it through the day-glo colors of painters Peter Saul, Alex Grey, and Kenny Scharf, the pill and hemp leaf paintings of Fred Tomaselli, the intensified palettes of Douglas Bourgeois and Sharon Ellis, and mixed-media and new media works by younger artists in the new millennium. Although the term "psychedelic" was coined to describe hallucinatory experiences produced by drugs used psychotherapeutically, the story these images tell is about the influence of psychedelic culture on the art world—not necessarily the influence of drugs. As contemporary art evolved into a diverse and pluralistic discipline, the psychedelic evolved into a language of color and light. In Psychedelic, more than seventy-five vivid color images chart thi... |
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PsychedelicDavid S. Rubin1960 |
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The SixtiesPaul MonacoBooks |
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